Several ludicrous content management patents have been granted by the US PTO in recent years (c.f. Interwoven's) but Oracle's "Self service system for web site publishing" may trump all. From the abstract:
...The physical implementation of the web site resides on a database....The web site system permits a site administrator to construct the overall structure, design and style of the web site. This allows for a comprehensive design as well as a common look and feel for the web site. The web site system permits content for the web site to originate from multiple content contributors....The web site system is also a self service web site system for content contributors, content owners, and site administrators. The self service system displays to users one or more panels that contain input fields to permit the users to submit content and web site components for publication on the web site. The user, through use of only a web browser running on the user computer, transmits the parameter to the web site database. In response, the web site is updated...
There you have it. Only Oracle would have the chutzpah to patent basic database publishing. Are nearly 1000 CMS vendors now infringing? Let's hope it's not for lawyers to decide...
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